Airborne boat delivery, C-17 style

Check this awesome shot of a boat — type unknown — sliding out the back of a C-17 Globemaster over the Pacific:

A boat flies out the back of a C-17 Apr. 9 over the ocean surrounding Naval Base Guam during a five-day mission to fly, execute airdrops, and foster joint service and international interoperability in the Pacific theater. The aircrew, from the 535th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, dropped static-line personnel, heavy equipment platforms, high-velocity container delivery system bundles, low-velocity CDS bundles, and High-Altitude Low-Opening jumpers during their time in Guam. // U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nathan Allen

I’ll start posting a cool photo every Friday, when possible. Here are a bunch more.

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Bill McMichael came to The News Journal in 2012 after 12 years with Gannett’s Military Times newspaper family; he has covered the military, from the Pentagon to ships at sea, for more than two decades. He's written about the Navy’s Tailhook scandal; racial integration of the military; the punishment of a whistle-blowing Navy SEAL; naval operations at the outset of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; sex trafficking outside U.S. bases in South Korea; medical malpractice; and military law.